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...browser may be on only 40% of all PCs now (in contrast to the 90% Microsoft's is on), but don't count it out just yet. Released last week, Netscape 6.0 is chockablock with handy features like instant messaging, an automatic language translator and an all-in-one mailbox that lets you view your AOL and Web mail in one place. But the coolest feature is My Sidebar, a window that opens next to the browser to give you a quick view of your stock portfolio, customized news and weather. The browser will also be included...
...admissions at Cornell University, Don Saleh will have his name at the bottom of 21,000 letters this year, only 6,000 of which will arrive in fat, happy envelopes. But as the father of an 18-year-old applicant to three colleges, Saleh himself is praying to the mailbox god this year. He suggests that parents and their college applicants can help prepare themselves for the rejection process by doing some homework before the letters arrive. "Recall positive aspects of all the schools on your list--especially the 'safety schools,'" he says. "Get out the brochures and watch...
...envelopes. Skinny envelopes contain the applicant's version of a "Dear John" letter: heartbreak in three paragraphs. What can parents, who spend two decades nudging their kids forward, applauding every soccer goal and clarinet solo, do for them on the day the skinny envelopes land in the mailbox...
...temp at two Manhattan brokerages to glean information on mergers and acquisitions, information he then passed on to other investors in return for 10 percent of the profits. Not that he got the full kickback - an estimated $70,000 to $110,000 is said to have flowed into his mailbox via cash stuffed in unsigned birthday cards. "The SEC has been very interested in the area of fraud over the Internet, and this case is just an extension of that," notes TIME Wall Street analyst Dan Kadlec. "In fact, they've done a good job of catching things...
...modern Paugussetts live on the group's two reservations: a quarter-acre lot in the town of Trumbull and 106 acres in Colchester. There a metal gate blocks the gravel drive, and a NO TRESPASSING sign bars the curious from visiting the two mobile homes inside. A mailbox reads GOLDEN HILL...